Digs & Discoveries July/August 2019

(Illustration: Otto Botticher, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, N, C., 1863. Courtesy of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Affiliated with Wake Forest University)
Digs & Discoveries May/June 2018

(N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources)
Digs & Discoveries May/June 2015

(Courtesy NC Department of Cultural Resources)
Letter from Virginia September 1, 2011
Thousands of escaped slaves made a new life in one of the world's most unwelcoming places—the Great Dismal Swamp, full of sink holes, thorns, snakes, bears, and bugs—for a chance at self-determination

(Courtesy Dan Sayers)